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Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a Nigerian-born, Calgary-based poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary journalist. He is the author of Double Wahala, Double Trouble; Wish Maker; and a co-editor of Wreaths for Wayfarers.

• I. 1. Home is what the tortoise bears on its back 2. The sea is the bridge 3. The sea grows its circle of stones 4. Wayfarer, you have seen again 5. The morning after the protest 6. On their evening walk through an alley 7. The woman hunches over her walker 8. The wind skulks at my window 9. Seagulls 10. The old way 11. Ahamefula 12. On slicing a mango one midday 13. Slush 14. Neighbours 15. Coyote down the valley 16. Tamarack Shade II. 17. The walk in May 18. Blooms in June 19. The park in July 20. Summer is gone III. 21. Bus stop 22. Origin 23. A word with an edge 24. Passerby (or, I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK!*) 25. Names IV. 26. The language of guns 27. Family story 28. The drawing 29. Postcard from a war-torn village 30. Photos on Twitter 31. there’s more 32. Body of bones 33. In my father’s shoes V. 34. Kinship 35. University Station 36. At the food court in Southgate 37. Nomads 38. Guitarist on the landing VI. 39. Humming Nina Simone on the train 40. Good love 41. Spilling 42. Compensation

"In there's more, the reader is rhythmically lulled into coming face to face with the realities of a world that centers the voices of the global majority. Through the shapes and words that dance on the page, we become enchanted by an exquisite cadence that takes us into the psyches of the dehumanized and the disenfranchised." V Mason-John, author of I Am Still Your Negro